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1989 - Classical Probability in the Enlightenment by Lorraine J. Daston
1990 - Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin by Crosbie Smith and M. Norton Wise
1991 The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London by Adrian Desmond Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a Science in America by John W. Servos
1992 - The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition by James R. Bartholomew
1993 - Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg by David Cassidy
1994 - The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages by Joan Cadden
1995 - The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire by Pamela H. Smith
1996 - Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy by Paula Findlen
1997 - Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 by Margaret W. Rossiter
1998 - Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics by Peter Galison
1999 - Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park
2000 - The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics In Victorian Britain by Crosbie Smith
2001 - The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by John Heilbron
2002 - Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by James Secord
2003 - The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment by Mary Terrall
2004 - Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne
2005 - Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry by William Newman and Lawrence Principe
2006 - Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology by Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.
2007 - Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics by David Kaiser
2008 - The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution by Deborah Harkness
2009 - 2009 award will be announced early 2010
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